BREAKTHROUGH BUSINESS MODELS: EXPONENTIALLY MORE SOCIAL, LEAN, INTEGRATED AND CIRCULAR A paper from Volans commissioned by the Business and Sustainable Development Commission September 2016 This paper was produced by external consultants and commissioned by the Business and Sustainable Development Commission. The contents reflect the opinion of its authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Commission. Readers may reproduce material for their own publications, as long as they are not sold commercially and are given appropriate attribution. Copyright Business and Sustainable Development Commission. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 International (cc by-nc 4.0). Volans Business and Sustainable 2 Bloomsbury Place Development Commission London WC1A 2QA c/o Systemiq United Kingdom 1 Fore Street London ECY 5EJ +44 (0)20 7268 0390
[email protected] [email protected] www.volans.com www.businesscommission.org www.projectbreakthrough.io ISBN: 978-0-9562166-6-3 Breakthrough Business Models 1 Breakthrough Contents Business Models Exponentially more Executive Summary 3 Introduction 6 social, lean, integrated and circular 1.0 Breaking Down 1.1 Change Goes Exponential 8 1.2 Business Models Evolve 12 2.0 Emergence 2.1 Breakthrough Exponentials 15 2.2 Social X 18 2.3 Lean X 21 2.4 Integrated X 24 2.5 Circular X 27 3.0 Breaking Through 3.1 Conclusions & 30 Recommendations Annexes 1 Glossary of Business Models 32 2 References 34 3 Other Volans Publications 36 Breakthrough Business Models 2 Acknowledgements The main authors of the report were John Elkington, Jacqueline Lim and Lorraine Smith of Volans, with thanks to Richard Johnson and Sam Lakha for their invaluable support.